Click on the album cover to Download "T.O.S: Terminate on Sight" on iTunes NOW!!
To share this slideshow:
Lloyd Banks is unsatisfied. Unsatisfied, despite having an incredibly successful 2003. A 2003 where he was crowned the street's number one artist, appeared on the year's top-selling record, and sold another two million-plus copies of an album with his own rap troupe. Lloyd Banks is so unsatisfied he's titled his G Unit/Interscope Records debut The Hunger For More.
"When I say The Hunger for More, it could be referring to more success," says Banks, the lyrical submachine gun of 50 Cent's G Unit arsenal. "It could be more money. Or respect. More power. More understanding. All those things lead up to that hunger for more, because my 'more' isn't everybody else's 'more.' I feel like I made it already, because I already got what everybody on the corners of the neighborhood I grew up in is striving to get. God forbid anything happen to me, my family is straight. So anything that happens after this is just me progressing as a person." Banks' personal progression is seen throughout his debut album, especially on numbers like the soul-dipped "When the Chips Are Down," which features The Game; and the Eminem-produced "Til the End," an elegiac meditation on mortality tinged with twinkling keys and bolstered by choral flourishes. On the other end of the musical spectrum is the arena-rocking "Playboy" the festive "Heart of Southside," which features G Unit Member Young Buck and horns bigger than your speakers; and the melodically cacophonous "Perfect Match," where Banks teams up with Brooklyn's Fabolous to exchange pearled strings of witty bon mots geared at the fairer sex. The Hunger For More's first single, the party-starting "On Fire" proves that Banks' music is at home in the clubs as it is the streets. "My record follows the same format of Get Rich Or Die Tryin' and Beg For Mercy but it's just me so it's a whole different sound," says Banks. "I got all new producers. I'd rather break a producer, than do what everybody else does. There's no guarantee that a big name producer is gonna give you that hit record. You can pay $100,000 for one song, there's no guarantee that it's gonna be that one. It's only what you make it. And that's what I'm gonna show everyone."
Lloyd Banks was born Christopher Lloyd twenty-two years ago and raised in Jamaica, Queens. "My mom is Puerto Rican, my pops is black," he informs. "It was kinda like when I was with my mother's side of the family I was the bad seed, I was the one who was most unlikely to succeed. And then when I was with the black side of the family, I was the angel, because all my uncles are career felons." His parents were young and never married. And his father, who choose to pursue tax-free income on the streets, spent more time behind bars then he did with his son. That left his mother to raise a young man who was close to six feet tall by the 6th grade and who started sprouting facial hair in his early teens. "My mother showed me everything," Banks says. "When I was in the third grade, she took a cucumber and showed me how to put the condom on." Like many kids in the inner city his age, Banks sought to escape the poverty and death of his environment.
Early on he took to writing various musings-ghetto poetry, loose narratives; nothing quite structured, though he was influenced by rap gods like Big Daddy Kane and Slick Rick. "I listened to Big Daddy Kane a lot, cause that's what my pops listened to," he says. Banks' favorite songs were Rick's "Young World" and Kane's "Smooth Operator," and "Ain't No Half-Steppin'." High school didn't agree with Banks, so he dropped out before his 16th birthday. The freewriting he had been doing had morphed into full-fledged rhymes, but that was a secret. "I never let nobody know I did it," he says. But he soon got his courage up. "I started rhyming outside and everybody started telling me, 'You should shop your material.' This is before I even got in the studio." Banks appeared on local mixtapes becoming one of the neighborhood's best unsigned rappers. His only competition was a childhood friend named Tony Yayo. One day, Tony, along with another childhood friend who rapped under the name 50 Cent, approached Banks with the idea of becoming a group. If Banks wanted to be down, he could be part of the crew that they were calling G Unit. Banks was down. "I always felt like if I was to get into doing rap professionally, I wanted to get into it with somebody who was from my neighborhood," he says. "Who better than people who I've known my whole life?"
Fronted by 50 Cent, the G Unit quickly redefined the urban music industry. They produced a series of street albums with original numbers and high quality artwork, making the discs something more than a bootleg, but not quite an independent release. 50 Cent was soon signed to Shady/Aftermath/ Interscope Records and released the instantly classic, record breaking Get Rich Or Die Tryin', on which Banks was featured. Then came G Unit's Beg For Mercy, which was still riding high in the top 20 of the Billboard 200 after four months on the shelves. Though these successes allowed Lloyd Banks to tour the world multiple times over, one accomplishment means a bit more than all the rest: Earlier this year, Banks was anointed as 2003's Mixtape Artist of the Year due to his appearance on G Unit mixtapes as well as his own Money in the Bank series. "I take pride in that cause I'm not qualified for a MTV Awards or a Vibe Awards or Grammys or any of that yet," says Banks. "I got my name through the mixtapes."
That's why people know Lloyd Banks today. That's where it built from. I skipped what a lot of rappers have to go through to get put on. I skipped Making the Band, I skipped [106 & Park's] Freestyle Fridays, the Lyricist Lounge -I skipped all that. I made my name on the mixtapes, on the streets. And that's the hardest thing to get right there." Despite so many things going his way, Lloyd Banks is not prepared to take it easy. "People will tell me all the time, 'Look at your set up. You&..39;re guaranteed to make it.' I get upset when I hear that. Ain't nobody guaranteed nothing. I feel like they're looking at the situation wrong cause I don't take advantage of nobody. I don't work less because you're working harder. I work real, real hard even though I know 50's there. He's there, he supports me 110%, but I don't want to put no extra pressure on him when I can do it. At the end of the day, I find myself working twice as hard."
CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE CHECK OUT MY MUSIC ADD MY PAGE
For there is 1 GOD, & 1 Mediator between GOD & men, the man Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ our KING, Refuge, in Whose Name is Power & through You all things were formed, teach us Your Ways, open up our understanding, for Your Name sake, continue to shape & mold us to Your Image, deliver us from our fleshly desires, as we forgive & pray for our loved ones & enemies, through Your Word & the Holy Spirit mature our characters, speech & hearts in Truth, Purity & Righteousness, free us from the bondage of sin & wickedness, help us to walk not after the flesh, but in Spirit & Truth, we praise You for Your Grace & Mercy toward us & our loved ones to see another day, may we abide & give You 1st place over our time talents & treasures, for if You be for us we have nothing to fear, order our steps as we focus on You, not on what others say or think, our current situations, or circumstances, do in us what we cant do ourselves, so we can help others & ourselves to live according to Your Will & Purpose, we can't do it without You Psalm 5: 1 LISTEN TO my words, O Lord, give heed to my sighing and groaning. 2 Hear the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to You do I pray. 3 In the morning You hear my voice, O Lord; in the morning I prepare [a prayer, a sacrifice] for You and watch and wait [for You to speak to my heart]. 4 For You are not a God Who takes pleasure in wickedness; neither will the evil [man] so much as dwell [temporarily] with You. 5 Boasters can have no standing in Your sight; You abhor all evildoers. 6 You will destroy those who speak lies; the Lord abhors [and rejects] the bloodthirsty and deceitful man. 7 But as for me, I will enter Your house through the abundance of Your steadfast love and mercy; I will worship toward and at Your holy temple in reverent fear and awe of You. Stay safe and have a blessed day my friend 1!!!
The New Generation of Gospel Music Project Featuring Sundays Best "Etholia Housey" The creator of the hit song "With You Always by Troy Sneed" 'Omega Forbes and Making the Band Season 1, "Ricardo Lambert" Is Now Available on Itunes, Rhapsody, Napster, Amie st. Amazon.com and all your digital music outlets. Stop By to get your copy today.
Coming Soon From DC Bookdiva Publications- Draw by Author J-Real!
Terrell a.k.a Pharaoh a well known drug lord who runs the streets of New York, is facing problems everywhere he turns. With people out to kill him and the police hot on his tracks, Pharaoh s empire is soon to collapse. After reportedly being dead, he leaves behind a younger brother (Serious) who can t cope with the family pressures, the death of his brother, and the temptation of the streets. Strapped with anger and greed young Serious turns to the same life of crime led by his brother, to handle all unfinished business and avenge his brother s death. Serious quickly builds his own empire with the assistance of Laura, a well educated diva, while taking no shorts and demanding power and respect. With all the power and respect in the palm of his hands, Serious quickly learns that his life in the fast lane comes with consequences he never expected. Serious soon discovers that the game's unforgiving rule of draw first, ask questions last.
Available for preorder at www.dcbookdiva.com and www.amazon.com
WHATS GOOD ITS UR GIRL MS.JADA BAY BEE AKA JADA'MARIE NEW MUSIC IS NOW HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ADD "SWAGG ON" & "TOUCH MY BODY" TO UR PAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS THURSDAY DEC 3RD GRAND OPENING “ $20 U N L I M I T ED HOUSE DRINK AVAILABLE “ @ AMNESIA 35 35 STEINWAYS ST ASTORIA NY SEXIEST & BEST VIP TREATMENT IN QUEENS
LADIES FREE & GENTS REDUCED TILL MIDNIGHT ON GUESTLIST QUEENS #1 AND ONLY COLLEGE PARTY MUSIC BY: DJ RUSH ONE, DJ STEVE NIEVES & DJ 2STRONG
"Wake Em Up" the FREE Mixtape is dropping december 15th! Which includes the banger "Searching";We will have direct links available for your convience. Plenty of new material coming soon be sure to stop by the page often for updates.
CHECK OUT THE NEW HEAT ON THE CON-CREAT,AS UPSET RECORDS COLABS WITH THE KANNIBALS,NEW MUSIC UP NOW..!!SOME OF DAT MACK A DOE,CRACK A HOE FA YA EAR...!!STAND UP....!!!
Online Now!
![[★][★] моиэў мопѕтд [★][★]](http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/11/s_5fe7487ad395449784eb31de052cee42.jpg)
